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School of Everything. Deep Snow Press. The True Teachers. COLLEGEUNBOUND.ORG. Studio Schools Trust. Big Picture. Mycelium Schol. The Learning Lab. Knowmads. KAOSPilot. New York schools enter the iZone. 26 October 2011Last updated at 00:34 By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Uncertain horizons: New York's economic fortunes are now linked to education After the iPhone and the iPad, the iZone is a different kind of design experiment.

It's New York's attempt to reinvent an inner-city school.
Record numbers of international students. 10 March 2011Last updated at 00:19 By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent The number of international students around the world is continuing to rise sharply, with provisional figures from Unesco's Institute for Statistics revealing an annual increase of 12%.

The final figures for 2009, to be published in May, are expected to show the number of international students rising to 3.43 million from 2.96 million, according to the Unesco statistics. There are many different measures of overseas students - but this global figure from Unesco shows a huge spike in numbers this decade, rising by more than 75% since 2000.